This study tested if intertidal snails Nucella ostrina would feel more stress after
undergoing a heat treatment designed to simulate a low tide condition if they were fed or starved. Our predictions were that N. ostrina ...

The growth of the warm-water, Mexican strain of the giant-celled marine red alga Griffithsia pacifica Kylin has been studied in great detail. However, a comparison of the growth rates of this strain to the local strains ...

Average ocean pH has dropped 0.1 units over the last 100 years to its current level of 8.1. Models suggest that ocean pH could further drop by up to 0.7 units within the next 300 years. This research focused on the effect ...

On San Juan Island, WA, the invasive slug Arion rufus lives in two habitats, the
Douglas-fir/red cedar forests and the grasslands. The native slug of comparable size,
Ariolimax columbianus, the banana slug, only lives ...

Global ocean acidification may be causing an increase in abundance of medusoid hydrozoans. Many medusoid hydrozoans are predators of epipelagic crustaceans and ecological competitors of fish for epipelagic prey. A change ...

Global ocean acidification caused by an increase in absorbed CO2 is changing oceanic ecology world wide, however little is known on how this change will effect medusozoan Cnidarians (jellyfish). Many studies have predicted ...

The average pH of ocean surface waters has dropped by about 30%, due to absorption of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. In the past decade, much research has been conducted examining the effect of this “ocean acidification” on ...

Ekblad, Cathy(School of Oceanography, University of Washington, 2008-06-19)

Galcier Bay is a suitable ecosystem for chaetognaths with their main prey being the relatively abundant Calanus copepods. Evidence supports a separate nursery habitat for juvenile chaetognaths. A significant negative ...

Teeth are the interface between an organism and its prey, and can be used to infer
an organism’s diet. However, little is known the interactions between tooth morphology and prey items in durophagous systems. To begin to ...

Teeth are the interface between an organism and its prey, and can be used to infer an organism’s diet. However, little is known the interactions between tooth morphology and prey items in durophagous systems. To begin to ...

Intertidal organisms face highly variable environments with a multitude of stresses placed on them. Freshwater input from rain and run off is one such stress. Salinity changes have been shown to have adverse developmental ...

Intertidal organisms face highly variable environments with a multitude of stresses placed on them. Freshwater input from rain and run off is one such stress. Salinity changes have been shown to have adverse developmental ...

Boating traffic can disturb and negatively affect normal behaviors of marine birds, including foraging. Surveys of seabirds were performed on two vessel routes with different types of boat traffic in the San Juan Islands, ...

Boating traffic can disturb and negatively affect normal behaviors of marine birds,
including foraging. Surveys of seabirds were performed on two vessel routes with
different types of boat traffic in the San Juan Islands, ...

The Elwha River dam removal project is expected to deliver fine grained sediment to the Elwha nearshore environment, thus potentially changing the substrate and affecting the macrobenthic invertebrate that inhabit it. This ...

Scallops are semi-mobile filter feeding bivalves; an important member of their ecosystems due to their ecological contributions and importance as bioindicators. Despite their importance, little is known about their diet ...